id:			119618
accession number:	1940.47
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.47
updated:		2025-02-09 00:34:57.027000

Lion with Cub in Mouth, 618–907. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Earthenware with polychrome glaze; overall: 15.3 cm (6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1940.47

title:				Lion with Cub in Mouth
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creation date:			618–907
creation date earliest:		618
creation date latest:		907
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creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture:	China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique:	earthenware with polychrome glaze
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 15.3 cm (6 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics
	opening date:   1940-02-28T05:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 28-April 7, 1940).

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T05:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Wells Objects of Art, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hollis, Howard. "Some Early Chinese Pottery."<em> The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>27, no 10 (December 1940): 154–155.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 155; Reproduced: p. 159
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140891

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